The Central African Republic Is "Getting Worse, Not Better"

The Central African Republic Is “Getting Worse, Not Better”

Posted: November 16th, 2017

By Peter Yeo

Peter Yeo is President of the Better World Campaign and Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy at the United Nations Foundation, where he leads the Foundation's strategic engagement with Congress and the Administration to advance policy changes that support the UN's work for global progress. Prior to arriving at UNF in 2009, Yeo served for ten years as the Deputy Staff Director at the House Foreign Affairs Committee chaired by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA). Prior to his work with the Committee, Yeo served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. State Department during the second Clinton Administration, where he led the negotiations around repayment of the U.S. arrears to the United Nations and was part of the U.S. delegation to the climate negotiations in Kyoto. Yeo holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University as well as a MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Board Member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

Seven people were killed and around 20 others injured over the weekend in a grenade attack on a peace concert in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, as violence surges this year in the country where a 12,000-troop-strong UN peacekeeping mission, MINUSCA, is based. The UN Security Council passed a resolution on Wednesday that will add 900 troops to the mission to protect civilians in CAR.

The Cipher Brief asked Peter Yeo, President of the Better World Campaign and Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy at the United Nations Foundation, about his recent trip to the Central African Republic and the security situation there.

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